As the TV series "Water Margin" was broadcast nationwide, the legendary stories and tragic endings of the heroes of the Liang Shanbo peasant uprising headed by Song Jiang in the Song Dynasty were widely circulated on a larger scale. But as everyone knows, "Water Margin", from novel to TV series, is a literary creation, and it is inevitable to be fictional. So is there really an uprising between Song Jiang and Liang Shanbo in history?
According to historians' research and research, in the Song Dynasty Huizong Xuanhe reign, there was indeed Song Jiangqi and his leader Liang Shanbo uprising, but unlike the "Water Margin", there were 108 generals and none So many vivid dramatic scenes.
Liangshanbo is located in the western part of Shandong. It was originally a small lake. Later, due to the flooding of the Yellow River from the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty, it merged with many small lakes around it. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, a water area of eight hundred miles was formed. There are large lakes in the lake, Hong Kong and Macao crisscross the lake, large lakes with reeds crisscrossing eight hundred miles of territory, Hong Kong and Macao crisscrossing the lake, reed crisscrossing, and many natural islands, the situation is dangerously complicated. At that time, many bankrupt farmers, fishermen, and some fugitives wanted by the government were hiding here, ganging up, relying on some "illegal" activities to make a living. There were a number of forces that increased day by day, and the number of people increased. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, many armed struggles and peasant uprisings against government corruption, exploitation and oppression were launched. The Songjiang Uprising Army is one of them.
The Songjiang Uprising was triggered by the Song Dynasty court to resolve financial difficulties and set up the "Xicheng Qutian Office", announcing that the entire Liangshanbo eight hundred miles of waters would be collected as "public", requiring the people to enter the lake to catch Fish, lotus root picking, and tail cutting are all subject to heavy taxes depending on the size of the boat. If there are violations of the rules, they will be treated as thieves. Poor farmers and fishermen cannot pay heavy taxes. The long-standing dissatisfaction with the social reality finally looks like The volcano erupted. Under the leadership of Song Jiang and others, they fought hard, armed and gathered dangers, relying on Liangshanbo's easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain to stop the officers and soldiers who came to suppress. In the first year of Xuanhe (AD 1119), this group of farmers officially declared an uprising.
According to historical records, there were thirty-six chief leaders in the Songjiang Uprising Army. They are Song Jiang, Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng, Shi Jin, Chai Jin, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi, Liu Tang, Zhang Qing, Yan Qing, Sun Li, Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng , Hu Yanchuo (Hu Yanzhuo in "Water Margin"), Li Jun, Hua Rong, Qin Ming, Li Kui, Lei Heng, Dai Zong, Suo Chao, Yang Zhi, Yang Xiong, Dong Ping, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Zhu Ni, Mu Heng ("Water Margin" is Mu Hong), Shi Xiu, Xu Ning, Li Ying ("Water Margin" is Li Ying), Hua Monk ("Water Margin" is named Lu Da and Lu Zhishen), Wu Song. The total number of the Songjiang Uprising Army is not recorded in historical records and cannot be counted. It is estimated that there are nearly 10,000. "Water Margin" writes that there are 108 heroes in Liangshan. It is a fictional fiction by a novelist. The author Luo Guanzhong "wants to make his book, with thirty-six Tiangang and seventy-two people with evil" (Lang Ying: "Seven revisions"), in order to make the novel more legendary to cater to the preferences of the people, catchy and easy to spread. But a novel is a novel after all, and readers should not regard it as real history.
Soon after the Songjiang Uprising officially announced the uprising, it left Liangshanbo and fought in Shandong Qing, Qi, Henan, and Hebei. The historical records say: This uprising army "traveled Heshuo and Tokyo There were tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and there was no one who dared to resist.” About two years later, in February of Xuanhe three years (1121), the Song Jiangyi army attacked Haizhou (now Lianyungang) by boat from Shuyang, Jiangsu. The sent ambushes surrounded, suffered heavy losses, and cut off their retreat. In this desperate situation, Song Jiang had to lead the crowd to surrender, accept the court's call for security, and become a part of the Song Dynasty official army. Later, whether Song Jiangbu went to the south of the Yangtze River to conquer the Fangla peasant uprising army was debated in historians, and there is still no conclusion. However, most historians believe that it is more likely that Song Jiang will not leave Fangla.
Song Dynasty is the dynasty with the most peasant uprisings in Chinese history. There were hundreds of peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty for more than three hundred years. The Songjiang Uprising was only one of the smaller scale and influence. However, the Southern Song Dynasty edited and published "Xuanhe Yishi", which turned the historical events of the Songjiang Uprising into an evolution and storytelling; in the early Ming Dynasty, "Water Margin" appeared again, which described the story of the Songjiang Uprising more vividly and touchingly, which made this time its original scale. The peasant uprising, which had a relatively small impact, had a great impact, and it was widely spread among the people, and even well-known to everyone. But smallAlthough it is related to history, it is not exactly the same thing after all. This is what we should pay attention to when watching "Water Margin".
